The blasting time is chosen during the day, not at night. The reason why it is arranged in this way is to prevent the explosion from causing the camp to roar.

The so-called "camp roar" refers to camp chaos. The army in the 17th century was no more than later generations. The camp rules in the military camp were stricter. Not to mention shouting loudly, even making rumors were dangerous. Moreover, the military camp was an authentic and slaughtering place. Whether in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were so-called "17 forbidden laws and 54 kills" camp rules. Those in the army lived in a nervous manner. The spiritual depression over the years can be imagined.

In addition, the military level in this era was too strict. Officers were bullying soldiers. Veterans formed gangs to bully new soldiers. Soldiers formed gangs and fought openly and secretly. Conflicts were accumulated year after year, and all depended on military discipline to suppress them. Before the war, everyone was uncertain about their lives and death, and they didn't know when they would die. At this time, the soldiers' spirits were on the verge of collapse. It might be just a soldier's screaming nightmare that could cause the entire battalion to go crazy. When the soldiers with swords in their hands started to mad, they would naturally slash and vent. Those who had grievances on their daily life and revenge, and those who had grievances on their daily life were basically the first target for soldiers to vent. By then, except for a few lucky ones, most officers would be afraid of dying under the swords of these crazy soldiers.

The Taiping Camp is not a later army. Neither the system nor the quality of soldiers is comparable to that of the later army. Moreover, it has only been in the army for more than ten days, and there are nearly 10,000 elderly, weak, women and children in the later camp. These people have a low awareness of the explosion. If the explosion is chosen to be carried out late at night, the loud noise will undoubtedly be the fuse that caused the camp to roar.

Just imagine, when you are sleeping soundly, a loud bang suddenly came. What should people react? Even if it is not a whistle, the whole city will be in chaos.

Not afraid of ten thousand, but afraid of if. Under the reminder of Duke Xiang of Song, Zhou Shixiang chose the time for blasting in the daytime, and notified the battalions in advance that the army of the camp would explode medicine in Dongcheng. The front battalions were also notified that most soldiers did not understand what the blasting meant, so some of them had tried to explain to them what the sound of cannons was. Under their explanation, the roar of the blasting was basically the same as the sound of cannons fired.

Zhou Shixiang would not explain the difference between the sound of cannons and the sound of explosions. All he wanted was the soldiers and the elderly, weak, women and children to be mentally prepared, so that they would not be frightened. This kind of thing would be familiar with each other, and after hearing the sound of the head, it would not be a rare thing when it sounded again next time, and it would not be shocking.

The ones buried the medicine were Tie Yi and the general flag of the two engineer battalions. The three of them were the most proud disciples Zhou Shixiang had taught in the past two days. Therefore, after Zhou Shixiang decided to conduct a small-scale formal blast, the three of them volunteered to take on the task of burying the medicine and firing the rope. Zhou Shixiang naturally would not refuse this request. He could not have these people as proficient as possible in blasting, the better.

Before the explosion, in addition to Zhao Sihai, who supervised the public treasury, all the general flags of the front camp were called to Dongcheng, and even Chen Mo, who led the prisoners and death soldiers, was summoned to watch.

Liao Ruixiang and a few people raised a table, brought a few chairs to invite the "adults" to take their seats. Then, under Zhou Shixiang's gaze, he raised the triangular red flag in his hand and waved it towards the city wall.

After waving the red flag, everyone's breathing became nervous. Those who had seen the sound of cannons subconsciously covered their ears, while those who had never seen it were distracted. They opened their mouths and stared at the city wall with curiosity.

In order to achieve the best blasting effect and maximize the visual effect, Zhou Shixiang specially asked Tieyi and others to bury the can of medicine under a broken and loose section of the city wall, and before that person had sprinkled a lot of white lime under the wall. The visual feeling after the explosion was definitely greater than the visual feeling caused by the original identity of the medicine.

About a few dozen seconds later, a muffled sound came from the city wall, not as sharp as the sound of cannons, and the ground moved suddenly, but the tremor was not very big. Those who covered their ears were a little disappointed and thought that the explosion was just like this, not as good as the Tartar cannon.

Just as I was thinking, I saw a stream of dust suddenly rising from the bottom of the city wall. What I saw in front of me was yellow, white, bricks and soil. In a moment, the wall was covered in gray. It was probably just a matter of two breaths that the wall fell as a whole, and then a hole about one person was exposed.

Ge Zheng slammed his high fives and shouted excitedly: "It's done!"

"It collapsed, it collapsed, it really collapsed?"

Duke Xiang of Song was still a little unbelievable. When Zhou Shixiang told him that he could use medicine to blow up the city wall, he still didn't believe it. Now what he saw with his own eyes is true. Although he only exploded a small piece of the city wall that was already loose, the gap exposed was only more than one person high. But when he thought that this was just the power of a cannon of medicine, he could naturally imagine the shock in his heart. When he was in the treacherous army, he had witnessed the siege of the city many times. He attacked the city many times. He used the lives of the cannon fodder of the people to fill it into the moat and fill it under the city wall, but he often could not capture the city wall. As a result, the siege of the army often surrounded the city but did not fight, mainly trapping the defenders to death, and also developing strategies such as building soil and flooding. However, it was never seen that the siege of the wall was blowing the wall with medicine. If the siege had this technique, he would probably have entered Beijing two years ago.

"This art of gods and immortals, art of gods and immortals..."

Duke Xiang of Song murmured to himself, his eyes flashing: One can of medicine can have such power, ten cans, hundreds cans, and thousands cans, so what if it is? It is Luo Ding in front of me. Can I explode Zhaoqing, Guangzhou, and Nanjing in the future?

The chief bannermen were shouting, the camp elders were whispering, everyone was excited and surprised. The visual sense of smoke and dust generated after the explosion was too strong, so they could not help but be shocked.

Zhou Shixiang, the person involved, was not happy or angry, and only waved his hand to order people to check the blasting point to see if there were any signs of loosening in the bricks under the city wall. After a while, Tieyi brought someone to report in person, saying that although the bricks were not too loose, the foundation below was loose. As long as people dig harder in, the city wall could be dug in less than half a day.

After hearing this, Zhou Shixiang went to the explosion point to inspect it himself. During the inspection, he kept telling Liao Ruixiang's records for practical training and inspection.

"Brother Zhou... Lord Qianhu, with this medicine, can we go and fight Deqing?"

Ge Yi used to call Zhou Shixiang the Zhou brothers, but as soon as he called out, his brother Ge Zheng pulled him, and when he spoke, he became "Master Qianhu". Seeing his impatient appearance, he seemed to think of him as Duke Xiang of Song, pointing to using this blasting method to blow up Deqing's city walls, and then go to the city to make a fortune.
Chapter completed!